America hasn’t become the Duchy of Grand Fenwick overnight. We’re not there yet, and we probably can’t get there for another five or ten years. But the uncomfortable truth is that American hegemony, both financial and cultural, is now openly negotiable. Silver topped $90 overnight.
A reserve currency doesn’t lose leadership because another nation makes a speech. It loses leadership because the old anchor stops doing three jobs at once: settling trade, warehousing savings, and financing wars without blowing credibility to pieces. The shift shows up first in the plumbing — what gets invoiced in what, what central banks hoard, what is treated as “risk-free,” and which rails get used when things get tense.
That’s why the WWII handoff from sterling to the dollar matters. Britain entered the 1900s with empire trade networks and London finance as the global default. Then two world wars did the damage: gold drained, assets sold, debts piled up. Meanwhile the U.S. became the arsenal, the lender, and the factory floor. By war’s end, America held disproportionate gold, ran the most productive industrial base on Earth, and had the deep markets required for reserve currency status. Bretton Woods didn’t create dominance; it formalized a shift already forced by war math.
Now the “quiet tells” are back in view. In On the Waterfront: Change Noted, you’re not chasing headlines — you’re looking at slow-speed giants: port cargo numbers and the suggestion of meaningful declines up and down the West Coast, framed as a systems shift more than a cyclical wobble.
In the ChartPack, the frame is a “Global Gap or Dollar Faller?” moment: readers shifting from stock-picking to asset-class questions, and metals still on their “moonward journey.”
Those aren’t proof of an imminent collapse. They’re evidence of a world beginning to price alternatives and reduce single-point dependence.
Which is where the practical side comes in. Your CWL doctrine isn’t politics; it’s continuity-of-life: remain solvent, healthy, mobile, and optional while systems misalign. Treat CWL as a systems failure mode, with the objective being non-participation by default.
That same operational mindset applies to currency transitions: they don’t announce themselves with sirens. They arrive as reliability breaks, optionality narrows, and the default stops being the cheapest choice.
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just thoughts bouncing around in the inner space,,, Biblical?
ah the Temple of global bankers, Gold will end the Fed according to ‘Q’ but silver seems to be an issue for the high prists like J P Morgan who are rumored to be short says the computer generated Asian Guy, so off goes the simple mind of the other brother
Biblical pay back?,,, Karma?,, 30 pieces of silver was payed by the high prists and elders to Judas
a good steward will have a new structure built before destroying the old, so what is this ‘Sovereign wealth fund’?
yep there they go again .. sell / short the $ USD to hold the disaster together . absolute joke . they are the real enemies . and they are in wall , broad and every insto in big traitor land . you will find out how strong the USD is .. youll get what you deserve
yeah we will sell USD and buy the great yen or even greater the euro .. wow what great currencies they are !!!!!
HoHoHo.
Parabolic moves reflecting the Hive rhyme in nature. Every upthrust has a down-slope often doing the Rorschach Inkblot thing, presented in chart symmetry. Be afraid. That applies to almost everything which is already *golden* though it seems Metallic venture have got some serious shine on. Somewhere I have an Ounce of silver from when dirt was new. Guy who became a friend and mentor would set aside some shiny rounds or bars at 5-10 ounces per week and … write on the paper wrapper what was the closing spot of the day. I paid him greenbacks and left with the little wrappers.
Even copper and other base metals now cause interest, catch a bid. The last dip AG ounce I bought was $14-something. Seems excessive but the herd is wild and wayward. Too quick to maintain nosebleed zone, unless something is way wrong. I do not believe that (enter conspiracy theorists) but, am perhaps blindsided? This looks very supply / demand to me.
A couple hours ago someone opened a can-o-winter and we went white in 15 minutes. Total palate change. The Winter Storm Watch turned Warning and we will receive somewhere between 2-7″ unless locally higher, then a foot? Uhm, OK. Bring it on.
Stay warm kids,
Egor _/)_______
Icing on the cake or lake report?
GU : on “… Icing on the cake or lake report? …”
Uhm, both Matey. Our wet water is very happy to turn hard water. With luck the coming Ice Station Zero conditions (OK, not -0- but single digits) will refreeze the cake. At the moment I’m ducking huge Lake Effect plumes sweep immediately South. Gorgeous.
Threw open the shade to welcome sunshine. We profit from solar build on purposeful masonry structure to South. A good thing since my planned solar Phase-1 is in the dumper. Due to snow load, on a not big winter (yet), we are at 28 -0- gain days. Nope
Which means I have $30,000 to play with.
Well, $27k since Coop gets $3k/year.
Love wind but hate turbines.
Time to cut, split and stack some more White Oak.
Blowing snot, the free-falls are abundant.
Need a young(er) sidekick.
Always, E _/)___
ps – DN Iceboat mast tip repaired, cover me, I’m going in
i was buying gold and silver 30 years ago . i am and always am a capitalist . thats why now its USD$ and bonds. treasury bonds
Silver has some serious industrial demand use, and even without the Silver Solid State Battery (not a given, there are 3 competing technologies so that is sort of the VHS v Betamax story) it’s use for electronics (about 460 million ounces a year) and solar cells (about 300 million ounces for 2025 per Bloomberg) continues to grow. Particularly wrt solar cells (the newest /greatest /OMG super duper, LOL, ones now being produced use up to 2x the amount of silver as the same time that the older generation cheaper ones are switching to some cheaper copper in them) steadily increasing silver use looks baked into the cake. THAT is why I was projecting $100 to $150/oz by the END of 2026 when I first mentioned silver here.
“IF” and it is a BIG “IF” Samsung’s silver based solid state battery takes off (Samsung is hoping to ship in late 2027)… then Katie Bar The Door on the silver’s price rise until a bunch of old silver mines are brought back online (2 to 3 years?).
As a memory remember: …. Cliff High long ago (early ’00’s) said that eventually silver would sell for more than gold because of the “NEW ELECTRICS”. What those “New Electrics” were his data, at least that which he put into his reports, he did not indicate but solid state silver based solid state batteries would fit.
As everyone probably already realizes once the Solid State Batteries with their huge energy storage and quick recharge times start being deployed en-mass the days of the ICE for at least smaller vehicles are numbered (5 to 8 years max?), much like diesel railroad engines had a quick replacement of steam locomotives once they could start being manufactured in large numbers starting in the early 1950’s (by 1960 the only mainline railroad still running steam engines on it’s main lines was N&W it happened that quickly)
Silver is moving because of supply/demand inbalances NOT because of the old style “trading” in an balanced market that has gone on with that metal for the last 110+- years.
Stephen2 : a solid summary. It’s hard to exit too. It’s not hard to ladder in and out? That’s my belief. At the least this insanely powerful upthrust merits some relief. Unless someone is stuck, trapped. It’s not a conspiracy when it’s happened before and will Shirley happen again. Someone, a lot of someones, is / are stuck. The metals markets are thin trading vs. some, so easy for Bigs to throw elbows. Game on. Egor
Yep … the market imo has gotten ahead of itself wrt only looking at suppy/demand ONLY considerations. Silver however is different from other hard commodities in that it became, and is, a speculating vehicle with both official “Futures” and private Derivaties contracts being written on it. Mass amounts of private Derivatives contracts too.
The estimates as to the combined size of the future/derivatives contracts compared to one year of actual consumption (about 1.1 million ounces a year) run the range of 330:1 to 540:1 which even at the lower level means that a LOT of players are upside down on their Silver “bets” with the year long price rise Silver has experienced.
Remember when talking about Futures and Derivatives unlike with physical (ie: miners, hard inventory, and stackers) for every dollar a person/entity makes as the price goes up another person/entity LOSES a dollar. There clearly are already HUGE LOSSES in the Futures/Derivaties arena but I haven’t seen any entity “Fessing Up” about their losses yet!!
umm … systemic risks building behind the curtain? WHEN will the curtain be pulled back?
Interesting dynamic at the moment for those trying to get out of being on the short side of the market. Silver has a thin market so they can’t just say “buy me $5 billion dollars worth of silver (or buy $5 billion dollars of silver longs contracts) today” without causing the market to move agains their order. ie: it will take time to exit their losing trade if they have it on in size, and if lots of other big players are trying to do the same thing at the same time it will take even longer.
As I sit on the sidelines watching I am waiting for the first big entity to CRY UNCLE and “fess up” to their mistake, but it has yet to happen even though by my back of the envelope estimate the overall losses since the beginning of 2025 now totals about $1 trillion dollars (one analyst who follows the market also has come up with that same number). (could be as high as $1.5 depending upon what the true ratio of paper to real has been in play, say up at that 540:1 ratio).
The fact that the 4 margin inceases put in place by the CME over the last month or so have NOT broken the back of the price rises tells you that the rise isn’t being driven NOT by margin speculation … but by REAL DEMAND and by big entities trying to buy to cover.
Finally the Chinese Premium, where most silver is converted to real products, is still running HOT which shows that actual USERS of silver are still willing to buy it at prices that have been running $8 to $10 an ounce above the Chicago price..
Shanghai price today at noon on the 15th: $101.22
https://goldsilver.ai/metal-prices/shanghai-silver-price
Chicago futures price today at noon on the 15th: $90.88
https://www.kitco.com/charts/silver
Fun game to watch. It will be fun to see who finally “Fesses Up” as to their losses. It will also be fun to watch the Fed scramble to limit the damage as they look us, and later Congress, in the eye and say “How Could We Know?”
Correction to my calculation of amount of possible “Losses” to date wrt Silver futures and derivatives
My notes actually show $25 Billion NOT the Trillion number I mentioned above. Still bad but in a totally different league.
ME BAD for not actually looking at my notes and worksheet and just typing off the top of my head. Off to the woodshed for spanking myself …
Electrics will never replace ICEs in cold climates.
“Diesel” locomotives are really electric locomotives. The diesel engine is coupled to a generator which runs the electric driveline. I should think someone (VW maybe?) could make a tiny diesel and use it to power an electric driveline in a personal motor vehicle, using the same principal, but as yet, no one has done so…
oh and dont forget the constant QE . sheetcoin . FED is in it up to its armpits with da boyz and da prez . that charade with trump and powell . what a joke . go sick em all USD . make america great by self inflected dollar destruction . good luck losers. sell bonds buy sheetcoin . joke
Financial Survivor Triplet for navigating thru the khaos ;
CASH/USD’s
Silver & Gold..did ya know Bumbles’ bounce?
and Crypto..tis but a modern Warriors to Portfolio theory, when one be up the other one or two will be down and vice versa.
* getting tiresome splainin scheisse to early childhood Glue Sniffers and whatnotz. Like the song says – Put away the Crack pipe, before the Crack puts you away..or what ever it is you be smoking..Trumpet Trees leaves ?
Monster box of 2026 silver eagles from JMB hit $52,500 this afternoon, so the selling price of bullion coin is up over $100 an ounce already.
Oil popped up, but was going down again this PM.
JJ : “… did ya know Bumbles’ bounce? …”
Now that’s ^ funny. Thanks, E
American airbase in Qatar.
West Texas Intermediate rose near $62 a barrel, after adding nearly 9% over the previous four sessions. Reuters has reported that some staff had been told to exit the Al Udeid air base [ Qatar ] by Wednesday evening. The facility was targeted by Iran in retaliatory airstrikes last year.
– If Iran is really that stupid to fire on a U.S. airbase, right now – no matter where it is – will that rigger Trump into making a military move on Iran ?
– The U.S. has formally broken off all diplomatic ties/communication with Iran.
– Russia has evacuated all embassy staff from Israel.
– Turkey has threaten to retaliate against the U.S. if we strike Iran.
Where are the American air refueling tankers? [ .., or, am I a day, or two early on that chess move? ]
“Stay Frosty !”
Most of DC will empty out for the MLK Holiday and market close Monday – so hey – this weekend’s hot. gotcher shde glasses?
Lol.. let Uncle Jay explain it..
https://youtu.be/IsWlkcsI5Ko?si=XPdf_mfHZ6eeu1ZK
For @Ray… monkey were has noticed.. a daily must watch..is war or peace headed our way??? who knows
https://youtu.be/HyDagpMf1tM?si=3bScxBMvDiLshVEs
then what about Putin..are we sneaking up and smacking a sleeping bear??
https://youtu.be/kS1n9NsdSRc?si=znzglbwrvcu9xfvr
its all following Stu’s interpretations and Alois irlmair prophecies..
Here’s the link to all of them with comments..
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6JzykveJpT5kMbgX51VEsHV1NRYVOHgQ
I had never heard of him. Thanks for sharing. I watched it twice.
Also breaking – ionside 24 hours now https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-883358
Open source flight tracker confirms – massive movements of equipment since early December to ME. They gotta load up on more Tits..to be moar specific, moar Tits on a Bull = Patriot & THADD systems.
Neither has ever, not once, intercepted a Hypersonic Missile, EVER.
Showtime – got Ure Popcorns & Cold/Hot Beverages ready ?
Stay sharp , head on swivel afteraction..Sleeperz just hit the snooze button, tickticktick
In meantime have youse seen Dr. Copper/TGB ?
Hello Jetson company – yeah test flight schedule please.
“Where are the American air refueling tankers?”
Currently hiding out in the north of England. ‘Surprised anyone noticed…
The US currently has about 400 active KC-135 tankers and just over 100 KC-46 (Pegasus) tankers.
We could move 50 air refueling tankers to the Middle East and it would barely dent our force of those tankers.
“… The U.S. Air Force currently operates around 396 KC-135 Stratotankers, with about 153 in Active Duty, 171 in the Air National Guard, and 72 in the Air Force Reserve…”
“…As of late 2025, the U.S. Air Force has over 100 active KC-46 Pegasus tankers…”
dLynn : “… If Iran is really that stupid to fire on a U.S. airbase, right now – no matter where it is – will that rigger Trump into making a military move on Iran ? …”
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Hmm.. People keep focusing on whether a single strike or provocation in the Middle East will trigger a major response, but if you look at older prophecies and even historical patterns, the idea is often that Iran is nothing more than a deflection of events unfolding — a spark that draws the world’s attention such as the poison pawn trap chess move while the real ignition point forms somewhere else being put on A back burner. Some of the old European seers, like Irlmaier, spoke about tensions in the Middle East rising, but the true flashpoint erupting in the Balkans.
Whether someone believes prophecy or not, the pattern is familiar: history shows that major conflicts rarely start where everyone is looking similar to the defections used by magicians.
They start in the overlooked places, the pressure points no one takes seriously until it’s too late.
seriously everyone should be paying attention to Stu’s interpretations..
https://theageofdesolation.com/
sadly I believe we are over the tipping point.. People can dismiss prophecy or pattern?reading if they want, but Stu’s interpretations line up with something a lot of us are feeling: we’ve crossed a threshold. The deficit is spiraling, inflation is eating away at stability, and the long?term outsourcing of industry has left the country fragile. Add in the economic strain from border pressures and global tensions, and it feels like we’re at that moment in a craps game where you either walk away with what’s left or roll the dice and risk losing everything.
This isn’t about fear — it’s about recognizing that the conditions we’re living through look a lot like the warning signs older civilizations tried to leave behind. Whether you look at history, economics, or even the old seers, the message is the same: pay attention before the situation decides for you.
false flag….
gotta have one to set the fuse, start the fire, tune the fork, lay it on thick, wall to wall coverage and mayhem.
movie has played many times.
re: 34 & Park, Minneapolis (“Water City”)
feat: capillary waves
The word “echo” apparently reaches English listening ears via French from the Greek goddess Echo. Her lot became to repeat last words spoken to her.
Last night I cued up a “By the Way” video from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The first moments portray band member Antoine the Swan walking by the 1300 block of Echo Park Drive at Silver Lake Blvd. in LA. The June 10, 2002 video is based upon the first part of three part 2000 Mexican movie “Amores Perros”. Part three ends with a scene featuring a dog named Black whose handler El Chivo (“heroin, cocaine”?) walks off with the money. Opening sequence background signage in the RHCP video reads for a second as “vaccines family planning pregnancy tests” in Spanish.
The Echo Park neighborhood is named after its former Reservoir #4 which allegedly echoed in the 1860’s before being filled with water to form what is now Echo Park Lake. A “Lady of the Lake” statue was installed by the lake in decades following named Nimue. Nimue beguiled her lover Merlin in the King Arthur and shapeshifter Knight legends.
Interesting correlation of the goddess echo and today….The story of Echo feels strangely relevant to what we’re living through today. In the myth, Echo loses her own voice and can only repeat the last words spoken to her. She becomes a symbol of the warnings unheard, truths ignored, and voices fading into the vast background of peoples minds.
That’s what it feels like watching current events unfold now. The past keeps speaking — through history, through the old teachings, through the many patterns we’ve seen before unfolding today as current events the evening news break through story — but seriously society only hears the faint repetition, not the full message that is laying just beneath the surface . We’re surrounded by echoes of earlier civilizations telling us what happens when leaders grow insulated and avoid the very things that truly matter, when people stop listening, when the life and arrogance replaces moral responsibility.
Echo’s tragedy wasn’t that she didn’t have any wisdom. It was a story or legend about no one hearing her until it was too late. That’s the part that feels familiar with the news of today.
The Daoist sages spoke about harmony and humility. Confucius taught virtue, responsibility, and care for others. Mencius warned that when leaders ignore the suffering of the people, a nation begins to crumble from within. Jesus taught compassion, justice, and the dignity of every person.
All of them were trying to guide humanity toward steadiness and peace — yet over time their teachings often become faint echoes, repeated but not understood. We hear the words, but not the meaning.
All of them were trying to guide humanity toward steadiness and peace — yet over time their teachings often become faint echoes, repeated but not understood. We hear the words, but not the meaning.
Echo’s tragedy…Is that the same dangers we face today when the voices of the past are treated as irrelevant to our civilizations of today. The echoes are still here, trying to warn us like Nostradomus or Elois Irlmair Or those that listen and read and evaluate and decipher these messages like Stu on his site and in his books on the site. https://theageofdesolation.com/ .. . The question is whether we’re willing to hear them head their words of wisdom.
At work last night I started to re-read the Mencius… I made this comment that reflects on today’s post…
What strikes me Funny when reading Mencius is how much the late Zhou dynasty resembles the fragile parts of our own society today.
You see a powerful nation starting to lose coherence, widening gaps between everyday people and the insulated upper tiers, and leaders who hold titles but seem disconnected from the realities on the ground.
Mencius kept warning that when the people’s hardships become invisible to those above, the whole structure becomes unstable.
It’s interesting how a text written over two thousand years ago can feel so familiar. Different time, different culture — but the exact same human patterns…
When you read Mencius, you see more than just social decay in the late Zhou dynasty — you see rulers trying to hold onto power through constant military expansion. Instead of strengthening the kingdom, these campaigns drained resources, destabilized the people, and actually weakened the state they were trying to protect. Mencius warned that when leaders lose the trust of the people, they turn to force, and that’s the moment a kingdom begins to devalue itself from the inside.
I find it interesting that we are not able to notice the parallels of the actions today from those actions of past dynasties of several thousand years ago.
A once powerful nation that was stretched thin, leaders That were insulated from the everyday realities of daily life of the people they claimed to support, and how they used military actions to project an image of strength while the foundation of the people at home grew more fragile. A different era, a different culture — but the exact same pattern of a state trying to maintain control in ways that slowly undermined its own fragile stability.
One thing I see is the parallel that Mencius makes clear about the late Zhou dynasty is that the decline wasn’t just A political one— it was a moral and structural one.
As the kings grew more arrogant and wrapped in their opulence, they stopped seeing the people who actually supported the kingdom and the kings put their value in things instead.
While the royal courts expanded their luxuries, the basic needs of the population were Being ignored. Their Infrastructure crumbled, decay and the very things they once were proud of crumbled and eroded beyond being repair, the burdens on the people increased.
The rulers tried to compensate for their loss of legitimacy with more military campaigns. Instead of strengthening and protecting the state they lived in.
Instead the effects of their actions drained the vary resources they once heralded as their strength and hollowed it out from within the very country they claimed to be proud of.
It’s hard not to see echoes of those dynasties today.
When our leaders live so far above the realities of ordinary citizens, when public needs and infrastructure are neglected while power is projected outward, a nation begins to weaken at its core. A different era, a different culture — but the exact same pattern of a society eroding from the top down when those in charge stop seeing the people who hold everything together.
I’ve been told more than once that studying the teachings of the past is a total waste of time — that students today should focus only on the present events.
The irony i see is that the great teachers of history already explained the very problems we’re living through today…
Long before Plato, Confucius,Muhammad or Jesus teachings,
people were already trying to pass down their lessons.
From the Sumerians in Ur, the Egyptian empire, the Babylonians — they carved their stories into campfire stories and written on clay tablets and scrolls so future generations wouldn’t repeat the same mistakes they made.
They wrote about justice, leadership, humility, teaching what the importance was and the dangers of arrogance that they experienced from their actions.
It’s strange that some people today say the past doesn’t matter, when ancient civilizations went to such lengths to preserve their wisdom.
They understood something we forget: That human nature doesn’t change much through the centuries .
The same problems we face today — inequality, pride, corruption, neglect — were already written about thousands of years ago.
Those old teachings aren’t outdated. They were warnings.
Plato, Confucius, the Daoist sages,Muhammad,Jesus from the rise and fall of Sodom and Gomorrah — they weren’t writing and teaching for their own comfort.
They were trying to Teach and warn future generations about the patterns that destroy societies and the virtues that allow people to live in peace and thrive. consider the allegory of the cave.. we the people are only shown reflections of what is going on behind the scenes….
Ignoring them doesn’t make us modern. It just makes us repeat the same mistakes they tried to help us avoid…..
I personally believe everyone should read the words of the greats every year..that all our politicians academic scholars and leaders should actively rep study these and then make a graph showing the activities of yesterday against the actions we are taking of today..
but then who am I just some old poor moron of the wastelands that barely passed high school speaking his opinion that no-one gives a hoot about what you think..like my honey says.. hun..your opinion is your opinion and nobody cares anything about your opinion except you… keep them ten words or less.. after ten words they are focussing on someone with true intelligence …
thank god for the Harvard library that allowed me to read this book and add it to my library of must read books..
LOOB …
Don’t put yourself down … you are more educated and more insightful than 98% of the college graduates out there, actually maybe more than 99.9% of them. You always have great insights, ones that I for one fully appreciate.
Its to bad you can’t inform my kids and friends .. lol lol… most of them run the other way trying to avoid hearing my thoughts and concerns…
I personally believe that one of the quiet tragedies of modern life is that a man’s worth is so often measured by the size of his bank account rather than the substance of his character trust me I am in that poor category with 150 in savings and 100 in checking ..lol lol… Yet when you look across history, the people who shaped civilizations — prophets, philosophers, inventors, reformers — were rarely wealthy by the standards of their time they were considered morons of the ages..
If anything, it Usually was the wealthy elites, insulated by comfort and driven by accumulation, who steered societies toward decline…the issues didn’t exist because it didn’t affect them until it hit all at once..then they questioned..oh my what just happened even though it was freaking up to them..like silver almost a hundred an ounce..how many see that as wealth building while its actually devaluing what they already have… Instead it was Greed that And building wealth would actually be the price of the precious metals declining ..in Principe it would indicate that the value of the currency was gaining in value..greed and opulence has toppled more civilizations than poverty ever has. The irony is that the very metrics we use to judge a person’s value today are the same metrics that have repeatedly hollowed out cultures from within….
(“And that gets us to the first meaningful headline of the day: Silver hits record high above $90 amid geopolitical, Fed concerns. Yes, the very commodity we told you we were buying instead of paying off a farm tractor in 2005 at $6.94 an 0unce. “)
OK…let me reflect to this story …. the dollar is tied to a promise of value… When you look at silver breaking past $90, it really highlights the deeper issue: the dollar is ultimately tied to a promise of value, while the BRICS bloc is tying its currency to hard commodities — gold, silver, energy, and resources like wheat, rice, iron, and copper. That shift naturally strengthens their position giving their currency more value while pushing fiat currencies further into a corner and currency devaluation.
forcing us closer to Weimar style depression..
We’ve been running massive deficits for years, outsourcing our industrial base, and layering tariffs on top of a fragile supply chain.
And adding the economic strain from global tensions along with the price of supporting these tension spots with little or no chance of regaining what’s been lost. financially, global infrastructure, trust and view of our status as being more and ethical..the loss of innocent lives with views that corner and devaluationly six few can gain wealth.., it feels like we’re edging toward the same kind of imbalance that led to Weimar?style inflation or Zimbabwe where the price of a loaf of bread exceeded thirty million dollars..
It’s like watching a gambler at the craps table: roll a seven and walk away with what’s left, roll snake eyes and lose everything. The warning signs are right in front of us — the question is whether we take them seriously….
It’s funny how people think the struggles we face…I’m pretty open about my personal trials and vent about them..I vent to offload the stress I face — medical bills from puberty to old age, impossible costs of living, wages that don’t match reality…hell this weeks take home.. $130.85 doesn’t fit the image of the kid sacking groceries or flipping burgers for a hundred bucks an hour lol —there must be something we’re doing wrong. My own kids thought I was exaggerating until they saw the numbers themselves. Even then, they assumed it was a personal failure, not a systemic problem .
I spent ten days in a gated neighborhood recently, and the contrast was unbelievable. A friend there — someone who made fifteen years of my wages in a single year and walked away from his company with a golden parachute — looked at my situation in shock. His first reaction wasn’t that society might be broken, but that I must be.
That’s the real divide today. Admitting the gap exists would mean admitting something is deeply wrong with the system, so people avoid the conversation and us entirely mostly because I will vent my frustrations to relieve stress.. They look away like the proverbial ostrich, because facing the fact that my venting may be a truth that would mean they to could possibly have to face the fragility of the world they depend on. But for those of us living it, the reality isn’t theoretical — it’s daily life.
Tis a crying crying shame you VALUE Ureselve so low.
WTF is matta wit Youse ?
If you dont Value Yourself, how on gods green Earth do You expect anybody to value You ?
Suggest you get on the road – da yellow brick and get Ure ass to the wonderful place in Oz. where the wonderful Wizard of Oz lives..
-Follow the yellow Bric -https://youtu.be/xQwVRWvIp1Q? and stop reinforcing NEGATIVES, please.
Oh I believe I have value and worth..its family and friend that see me as a poor man that doesn’t.. there’s only one person that I won’t debate on any subject and she says the same thing as myself..at almost ninety she still reads a book and a half a day..met her in the stacks of the LOC.. her favorite comment is..if I could meet someone smart then I could gain..